Delayed key down not resulting in repeats?

[Xibalba]

For (5)
  Send("{a down}")
  Sleep(200, 2000, 1)
  Send("{a up}")
  Send({ENTER})
Next

In notepad, the result is always:

a
a
a
a
a

When I expect something like this (depending on key delay in OS):

aaa
a
aa
aa
aaa

Have I missed something or why isn't some of the a's repeated?

[somdcomputerguy]

Sleep has no 'random' abilities built into it. Check the Random() function in the docs.

[Xibalba]

Sleep has no 'random' abilities built into it. Check the Random() function in the docs.

Yeah ok, I cheated. I didn't post my working code, since I'm fairly sure it isn't any syntax problem.

For the sake of it, I'm using a correct For-loop as well as this:

$delay = Random(200, 2000, 1)
Sleep($delay)

Question in OP remains.

[somdcomputerguy]

Try then increasing the range, say, 100 to 3500, that may help things.

[Xibalba]

Try then increasing the range, say, 100 to 3500, that may help things.

If I type with my own keyboard chars gets repeated after like 600ms... anyone?

[Xibalba]

Not even this works:

Opt("SendKeyDownDelay", 3300)

Send("b")

Only one b is printed (in notepad)

Can't find more info about this by searching either.

halp

[somdcomputerguy]

Maybe do it like this..

For $i = 1 To 5
    $keys  = Random(1, 10, 1)
    $delay = Random(200, 2000, 1)
    For $j = 1 To $keys
        Send("{a}")
    Next
    Send("{ENTER}")
    Sleep($delay)
Next